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  • Mass. insecurity

    01/24/2010 3:18:09 AM PST · by Scanian · 6 replies · 717+ views
    NY Post ^ | January 24, 2010 | Editorial
    Team Obama may have learned at least one important lesson from Tuesday’s electoral debacle: Americans are serious about national security. Here’s hoping, anyway. Just a day after Republican Scott Brown won the Senate seat in deep-blue Massachusetts, the administration’s pick to head the Transportation Security Administration, Erroll Southers, was forced to drop out. He blamed “politics.” In fact, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) had raised legitimate questions over whether Southers thought TSA personnel — key cogs in the nation’s security network — should be allowed to form a union. Not satisfied that Southers had adequately addressed his concerns, DeMint held up...